Welcome X-Men to Marvel United, Solo Play to Keyper, and Miserable Family Members to Gloomier

Welcome X-Men to Marvel United, Solo Play to Keyper, and Miserable Family Members to Gloomier
Richard Breese of R&D Games first started talking about Keyper at Sea — an expansion for 2017's Keyper — in January 2019, and he first revealed graphics for the item in February 2020, with plans to release it at SPIEL '20.

Due to various circumstances, Breese moved the expansion's release date to Q4 2021, and he now plans to run a Kickstarter campaign for it in Q2 2021. As is customary for his releases, Breese has posted a GeekList that presents an overview of what's in the box, namely the Shallow Water and Deep Water modes of play in the expansion and the solo mode of play created by Dávid Turczi for both Keyper and the Shallow Water mode of Keyper at Sea.

Board Game: Keyper at Sea

Breese notes that the next titles from R&D Games will likely be "Keydom's Dragons, an updated version of Aladdin's Dragons, but set in the Key universe. This will also include a Dávid Turczi solo mode game. Following that, there will be a completely new Key game called Keyside, a joint design between Dávid and myself."

• In July 2021, Renegade Game Studios will release Clank! In! Space! Adventures: Pulsarcade, a Clank! In! Space! expansion from Paul Dennen and Evan Lorentz that adds six new modules to the game.

• As soon as the Kickstarter for Zombicide: Undead or Alive ended, publisher CMON Limited teased its next crowdfunding project: Marvel United: X-Men. In all likelihood, this will be a co-operative game akin to 2020's Marvel United from Andrea Chiarvesio and Eric M. Lang in which you take on the role of various Marvel superheroes to thwart a villain's master plan.

If you've seen any of the X-Men movies, then this game trailer from CMON will feel quite familiar:


Czech Games Edition has an expansion in the works for Lost Ruins of Arnak, with news about this item and its estimated release date coming in Q2 2021.

• In Gloomier: A Night at Hemlock Hall, a card game for 2-5 players from Keith Baker and Atlas Games, you take control of a family and record all the terrible things that happen to its members by layering transparent cards on top of them. Only the visible data matters for your score, and if your family is the most miserable when the game ends, you win.

Gloomier is being Kickstarted through April 8, 2021 ahead of a Q4 2021 retail release, and the stories and guests in it can also be used in the long-lived Gloom card game series from Baker and Atlas Games. The KS campaign also includes The Gloom Chronicles, which allows you to transform any edition of Gloom into a serialized, campaign-style game.

From gallery of W Eric Martin

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